APNIC Open Policy Meeting
Biography
Name: Kazuhiko Yamamoto
Dr. Kazuhiko Yamamoto is a researcher of Internet Initiative Japan(IIJ), one of the biggest Internet service provider in Japan. He is known as the main programmer of Mew, a novel MIME mailer on Emacs and XEmacs. Also, he is familiar to Japanese people as the author of the security column on UNIX MAGAZINE. He is playing the role of the chair of IPv6 working group, WIDE Project and the development leader of KAME Project.
He was born in February 1970 in Yamaguchi prefecture, the most western part of the main island. He had lived in my home town for 18 years since my birth and moved to Fukuoka city to enter Kyushu University in 1988. After receiving master degree of computer science as the result of my 6 yeared student days, he moved to Nara city as a research associate of NARA Institute of Science and Technology in 1994. After spending 4 years at Nara, he moved to Tokyo area to belong to IIJ for better research environment.
He received Ph. D on information science from Kyushu University in 1999, for the research on protocol migrations in the Internet environments.
